what a shame! I spent nearly 3 hrs this sunny Friday morning staying at home watching TV again. this time it was Secretary Rumsfeld's testimony on Iraq prisoners mistreating. yeah, this is the one who generated a lot of widely-spread sayings since 911, including as someone told me before, the famous "we don't know what we don't know." can this sentence be applied here this time?
I don't have time to go into details of the hearing, which is out of my scientific work range and should be CNN reporter's duty... jesus, I should really start working now! in brief, the moral of story here is:
1) you'd better be prepared for the consquences when you spit out big-mouth-tough-talks, especially in a leadership position. Rumsfeld and president Bush wouldn't expect those pictures when blabing "Al Qaeda terrorists will not be treated under Geneva convention". it was probably a charismatic tough-leader talk at that context right after 911, but now attacked by Democrats as the atmosphere contriver of the large scale mistreatment by US MPs towards war prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, which is indeed hard to defend. ... ok, think before you talk. no one predicts things precisely, but a little bit forseeing is necessary for politicians.
2) Hilary Cliton should run for next presidential election. compared to the other two female senators who talks either too slowly or too emotionally without being able to capture and deliver the key messages, she is really the rare species of women politicians with acuity and intelligence.
ok, story over. work of last-day-of-the-week should start.... btw, for the goodness of American people, there is really large possibiltiy that this warmonger Rumsfeld is going to resign because of ineffective react to this case. he blurted very awkardly when answering some really good-looking and sharp-thinking Indiana senator's strident question about his resignation : " that would be possible." let's wait and see...
have a nice weekend everyone!